The book provides a quantitative and contextual analysis of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland, placing the Irish experience within a comparative framewo

The title provides a quantitative and contextual analysis of homicide in pre-famine and famine Ireland, placing the Irish experience within a comparative framew

On the night of 29-30 October 1816 eight people were murdered by burning to death in a house in a remote part of County Louth, known locally as Wildgoose Lodge.

While most scholarly attention on violence in post-famine Ireland has focused on political crimes, this book examines non-political violence, which made up the